Do It: Fairport's Clough paddles for a cause close to home

12:16 AM,
Sep. 15, 2013

Steve Clough, 55, of Fairport has made round trips of Canandaigua Lake, shown here, and Keuka Lake to raise money for Golisano Children's Hospital, where doctors and nurses saved his son's life 15 years ago.

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Steve Clough slipped his 14-foot touring kayak into Keuka Lake before the sun came up last Monday. His watch read 4:52 a.m.

Soon, the 55-year-old Fairport resident was a tiny solitary figure on a large expanse of water. Alone with his thoughts, focused on his mission: to paddle the length of one branch of this mystical Y-shaped Finger lake then back up the other. From Penn Yan south to Hammondsport, from Hammondsport north to Branchport, a total of 34 miles to raise money and awareness for the life-saving work that takes place each day at Golisano Children's Hospital, part of the University of ...